Everyone likes praise but we have been most impressed by how creative and colourful our readers can get while panning us. Put aside the bouquets. Here’s a collection of the best of the brickbats that Firstpost got in its first year.

The campaign to eliminate the scourge of darkness has extended to every nook and cranny of a woman’s body. It was only a matter of time before we breached the final frontier: our colour-challenged yonis.

A Tehelka sting aimed at 23 police stations across the Delhi NCR reveals that our men in uniform have a strict litmus test when it comes determining “real” rape cases. And according to their stringent criteria, almost all women deserve to be raped.

Sister Mary, who left her Catholic congregation in Kerala 13 years ago after 40 years of nunhood, is likely to raise her storm with her book on the church. Two others, a former nun and priest, had caused controversy with their books earlier.